Back in October Microsoft released a new whitepaper about Energy-Smart Buildings which detailed our findings from a pilot program on our campus in Redmond, WA, where we used technology to increase the energy efficiency of our buildings. It has been a...

Smarter buildings are a big part of how Microsoft is reducing its environmental footprint. An article in The Atlantic Cities takes a look at Honest Buildings , a website that combines social networking, crowdsourcing and big data in order to create energy...

Redmond, Washington may be synonymous with Microsoft as the home of its corporate headquarters, but the company’s commitment to increasing energy efficiency is a worldwide endeavor spanning the U.S. and our global offices from Hong Kong to Ireland . Microsoft...

As we wrote last week , big data represents a huge opportunity to improve environmental sustainability outcomes, and the evidence for that keeps mounting up. In the run-up to the Structure: Data conference hosted by GigaOm next week, GigaOm looks at ten...

One of the things we strive to do on this blog is to showcase efforts across the company where we are making progress advancing environmental sustainability at Microsoft while also recognizing where there’s still work to do. One area where there’s a lot...